Taposa

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Template:Short description Template:Short description Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The Taposa were an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands from what is now Mississippi in the United States.[1]

The Taposa were a small tribe like their neighbors, the Ibitoupa and Chakchiuma, who all lived along the upper Yazoo River between the larger, more powerful Chickasaw and Choctaw.[2][3]

History

17th century

The Taposa were first written about by French colonist Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville in 1699.[4]

18th century

Baron de Crenay's 1733 map of Louisiana includes a Taposa settlement near the Chakchiuma.[4] Another neighboring tribe, the Ibitoupa may have merged into the Taposa in 1722.[5] The Taposa ultimately allied with the Chickasaw.[4]

Name

The original meaning of the name "Taposa" has been lost.[6]

Notes

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  1. Taposa Tribe
  2. Ricky, Encyclopedia of Mississippi Indians, p. 7
  3. The Indian Tribes of North America, by John Reed Swanton
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